The exercise of running a re-draft of the 2024 NBA Draft piqued my curiosity: where would Bilal Coulibaly land in a re-draft of 2023? And, just scanning down the list of drafted players\u2026it won\u2019t be 7th.<\/p>\n
This is not a big an indictment of Coulibaly as it might seem. He still has lots of potential, he\u2019s far from a finished player, and 2023 is a strong draft class. Like most drafts, the \u201cre-draft\u201d list will likely bear little resemblance to the actual draft order.<\/p>\n
In 2023, the Wizards entered draft night with the eighth pick and several second rounders. They traded a couple seconds and that eighth selection to move up one spot and pick Coulibaly. They made several other trades that netted them Tristan Vukcevic.<\/p>\n
One of the picks they dealt was number 57, which the Golden State Warriors used to select Trayce Jackson-Davis, who had a solid first round grade in YODA and will likely go fairly near the top in this re-draft.<\/p>\n
A few others I considered adding to the Honorable Mentions list, but don\u2019t quite make it: Marcus Sasser, Mouhamed Gueye, Tristan Vukcevich (probably goes in the first round in a full re-draft), Ben Sheppard, Julian Strawther.<\/p>\n
Let me know your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exercise of running a re-draft of the 2024 NBA Draft piqued my curiosity: where would Bilal Coulibaly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,12301,85,93248],"class_list":["post-170236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-sports","tag-washington-wizards-statistical-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}